The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel
Memory, Trauma, and Capital
Authors: Lang, Felix
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- About this book
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After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." What resulted was a vital contribution to the legacy of contemporary Arabic literature. Through interviews, literary analysis, and the lens of trauma studies, Lang sheds light on what it means to remember through post-war literature.
- About the authors
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Felix Lang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg, Germany.
- Reviews
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"This book is a well researched and serious study of two decades of Lebanese novelistic production in English, French, and Arabic. Lang's frank discussion of the forces at play in the Lebanese literary field brings out the grain of generational literary production in Lebanon. His deft analyses of the civil war theme acknowledges but goes beyond trauma theory and 'the memory industry.' His book will appeal to literary critics, anthropologists, and humanists interested in the cultural life of the Levant as well as those interested in next-generation trauma studies." - Ken Seigneurie, Professor of World Literature, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"Felix Lang brings together several theoretical tools, mainly -but not only- Pierre Bourdieu's sociological analysis of the literary field as a locus of struggle for symbolical power. We discover with this book how the notions of memory and trauma are being used and remodeled by these writers, and we feel compelled to read, re-read, or teach the great novels of the likes of Elias Khoury, Rachid El Daïf, Hoda Barakat or Rawi Hage from new perspectives." - Richard Jacquemond, Professor of Modern Arabic Language and Literature, Aix-Marseille Université, France
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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Newspapers, Prizes, and Politics: The Field’s Institutions and the Global and Regional Context
Pages 15-32
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The Values of the Field: What Makes a Good Novel in Lebanon?
Pages 33-49
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The Civil War Novel and the Break with Tradition
Pages 53-71
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Revolutionaries Turned Writers: A Secular Left-Wing Habitus
Pages 73-92
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel
- Book Subtitle
- Memory, Trauma, and Capital
- Authors
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- Felix Lang
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-55517-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137555175
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-55988-3
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6419
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 263
- Topics
